toldailytopic: If there were a TheologyOnline Mount Rushmore who would be on it?

[The Barbarian]

the point, of course, is that your silly idea of God is one who has created a system that more often leads to death and disease than improvement.

He did create it. You're trying to hold God to man's standards. But death and disease are also His creation:

Isaiahs 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

(notice that by "evil" He means things like death and disease, not sin)

Go ahead - continue positing a God who is no more effective than man :chuckle:

That is clearly more than any man can do. You're just not happy with the way He does things.

 

[Eeset]

He did create it. You're trying to hold God to man's standards. But death and disease are also His creation:

Isaiahs 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

(notice that by "evil" He means things like death and disease, not sin)



That is clearly more than any man can do. You're just not happy with the way He does things.

Keep this up and I am going to nominate you for Mt. Derail.

 

[resurrected]

barbie insists that we accept him as a moron

He did create it.

:thumb:


you can stop trying so hard now barbie

 

[Angel4Truth]

Bob Enyart, Knight, Delmar and Ebenz

 

[grit]

If they're to be chiseled in stone, I think in all due humility we'd probably defer to other Christian greats like Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and maybe Joni Eareckson Tada or Harriet Tubman, just to keep us 'relevant'.

 

[sky.]

Trad
Crucy
TruthSetsFree
Rescued BY Mary

 

[Clete]

Knight, Turbo, Bob Enyart & George Washington

 

[Traditio]

Trad
Crucy
TruthSetsFree
Rescued BY Mary

Is this for a TOL Mt. Rushmore or for a TOL Mt. Spam-more?

I just want to be clear on this: are you recommending me for an honor or a dishonor?

 

[Christian Liberty]

a common mistake


our Bob Enyart spells his name a different way

Are you saying he's not an open theist, or that he's not a heretic?

If they're to be chiseled in stone, I think in all due humility we'd probably defer to other Christian greats like Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and maybe Joni Eareckson Tada or Harriet Tubman, just to keep us 'relevant'.

Well, I'd question calling the Pope a "Christian". I don't believe its impossible for a Catholic to be saved by any means, that's up to God, but they are way off theologically and those aren't differences you can just put aside like you can between, say, baptists and pentacostals or something.

That's not even as bad as John Calvin though. Are unrepentant murderous theocrats "Great"? Heck, I lean "Calvinist" theologically and I still don't respect Calvin as a person.

The Anabaptists were the real Christians of the period.

 

[Lon]

That's not fear! You need a woman

I've no reservation.

(Er, sorry, you can read into that a bunch of ways)

 

[The Barbarian]

I am puzzled why you haven't made any nominations for who should be on Mt. InTOLerance?

I guess...

Knight
ACW
Nick

The good, the bad, and the psychotic. I'd add Bybee, just because for so many of us, she acts as a sort of conscience here on TOL.

 

[Charity]

I've no reservation.

(Er, sorry, you can read into that a bunch of ways)

Lol was no offence to you sir!

 

[Lighthouse]

toldailytopic: If there were a TheologyOnline Mount Rushmore who would be on it?

Knight - For starting TOL
Bob Enyart - For inspiring TOL

The other two might depend on when it was made.

I think Sozo deserves a spot, though. And as Stripe reminded us, maybe Bob B.

TOL's four great faces in my estimation

First face--Knight-- the founder. TOL wouldn't exist without him.
Second Face-- Bob Enyart-the founder of BEL a whole forum of TOL.
Third Face - Chickenman - TOL's greatest theologian
Fourth face - Stripe - TOL greatest apologist in the field of science.

Living.

Stop trying to make me cry!

Knight didn't say they had to be deceased members.

They don't, but he also didn't say they had to be living.

Sozo, Outlaw, Mystery, and Door. lain:

:chuckle:

Mount Spammore would look more like this:
meshak
bog
Joey Arnold
jerzy

How about Mt. Stalkmore?

Joe Roberts
SCashmanMD
Sad Ball
Greg Mitchell

 

[Nazaroo]

um... can Jesus have just one spot? At least until He comes back?

"we could build a tent, one for Elijah, one for Moses, and one for you!" ...

 

[Lighthouse]

um... can Jesus have just one spot? At least until He comes back?

"we could build a tent, one for Elijah, one for Moses, and one for you!" ...

We don't know what He looks like. And the Catholics would claim it was weeping blood all the time.

 

[Nick M]

TOL's four great faces in my estimation

First face--Knight-- the founder. TOL wouldn't exist without him.
Second Face-- Bob Enyart-the founder of BEL a whole forum of TOL.
Third Face - Chickenman - TOL's greatest theologian
Fourth face - Stripe - TOL greatest apologist in the field of science.

Solid.

Sozo, Outlaw, Mystery, and Door. lain:

That leaves out Elyon. And S.M.O.D.E.. And some others....

 

[Nick M]

Knight, Turbo, Bob Enyart & George Washington

Also solid. Though I prefer John Adams to GW and TJ.

 

[Charity]

Knight, Turbo, Bob Enyart & George Washington

Wiell then, will have to come hear bob Enyart.

 

[resurrected]

wait a minute

I thought Knight was proposing to carve their likenesses in rock

Are we planning on taking the actual posters and supergluing their feet to the rock?


well, that changes everything


:think:


town
barbie
artie
squeaky

 

[Stripe]

:idea:

...and the rock could be Granite!